Comments On: The Case for a Local Memorial to U.S. Grant: Exhibit One
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Comments On: The Case for a Local Memorial to U.S. Grant: Exhibit One
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I know they are playing both sides. God did give you the good sense to see when YOU are being played.
Posted by
B_Broadhead]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:09:32 -0500Memphis Flyer
B_B, I'm sorry, when you denounced Media, I assumed you meant all media, which would pretty much have left you intuiting in the wind.
Posted by
CL Mullins]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:54:57 -0500Memphis Flyer
Posted by
B_Broadhead]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:46:38 -0500Memphis Flyer
Not quite true, but it goes to my point about seeing the enemy face to face and how that changes perceptions.

I was quite extensively trained as an officer that some orders are lawful and some are not, and how to tell the difference. I was not allowed to give an unlawful order or to follow one, but if I did either, it was at my peril.

I knew better than to shoot at women and children who were obviously not a combat threat to me. Things get a little blurry when I, and I alone, must decide.
Posted by
ArlingtonPop]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:38:05 -0500Memphis Flyer
Damned if I know.

I always thought that rape and pillaging thing was the whole point, so I don't get it either.
Posted by
ArlingtonPop]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:21:14 -0500Memphis Flyer
Most modern wars are fought by secular humanist because most industrialzed nation governments are secular (even Israel now) by nature. Humanist simply make their OWN morality as is the case for America.
Posted by
B_Broadhead]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:12:19 -0500Memphis Flyer
APop, And where does one go for all the rape and pillaging after a city is bombed flat.
Posted by
CL Mullins]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:49:07 -0500Memphis Flyer
Lincoln, Grant and Sherman had no problems with their choices.

As you said, the game was to WIN at any cost and the whole South was the enemy so there were really no rules or morality to worry about when decisions are made on a more secular level.
Posted by
B_Broadhead]]>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:35:15 -0500Memphis Flyer
Good question.

I don't think the concept of modern war even took hold until the rapid development in the technology of warfare made it possible. Even today, the intentional targeting of non-combatants is supposed to be forbidden.

Problem is, how tell who is a combatant and who is not anymore?
Posted by
ArlingtonPop]]>
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:57:13 -0500Memphis Flyer
Posted by
CL Mullins]]>
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:18:42 -0500Memphis Flyer
Just makes me wonder if Lee’s march into Pennsylvania would have been seen as “just war modern tactics” had he destroyed, burned property and murdered the innocent civilians there rather than just looking for shoes for his barefoot men before Gettysburg.

But that really doesn’t matter now, does it?

I know how apologists like to write the history and US Grant has all the progressive historians he needs to cover his path of owning slaves right up to the beginning of the war talk.

He seems to be an ardent abolitionist AFTER the war and in public life because in his own words, “good help is too hard to find”.
Posted by
B_Broadhead]]>
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:06 -0500Memphis Flyer
Grant's drunkeness was always greatly overstated.